Japanese Title: Miltank! Revenge Battle!!
Original Airdate: August 10th, 2000
US Airdate: August 18th, 2001
Whitney takes our heroes to her uncle's Miltank farm in the outskirts of Goldenrod City. Here they sample the finest in Miltank dairy products and learn how to groom and care for these Pokémon. Ash realizes this is a great opportunity to study Miltank first-hand and hopes it will help him against Whitney's Miltank in their next battle. After learning about Miltank and coming out victorious in a battle against Team Rocket, Ash realizes the answer to overcoming Whitney's strongest Pokémon is good old-fashioned team-work.
Tropes
- Chekhov's Skill: Ash learns from his battle with Team Rocket's barrel tank tactics that he can use against Whitney's Miltank.
- Food Porn: All those Miltank dairy products...
- Graceful Loser: Whitney takes her loss far better than in the games. In fact, she's impressed enough by Ash using the terrain to his advantage she foregoes the official rematch Ash proposed if he won and gives him his Plain Badge.
- Hurricane of Puns: There are a lot of dairy based puns in the episode.
- It Only Works Once: Whitney repeats her 'use Rollout constantly' strategy as in the previous episode, but Ash is prepared this time using Cyndaquil to wear down Miltank, Totodile to dig trenches and Pikachu hides in one of the trenches and slams Miltank upwards and fries the Milk Cow Pokémon to win. If you use only one move constantly, your opponent's gonna figure out how to counter it.
- Mythology Gag: Miltank's notorious reputation in the games is shown in the previous episode and here in full force. It takes Ash's entire team of 3 and some outside-the-box tactics for him to beat it.
- Stock Animal Diet: Averted, as this is the closest we get to seeing Pikachu eat cheese, a favorite food of other cartoon mice.
